Does your family blow off your writing?
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Re: Does your family blow off your writing?
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My biological family is supportive of me doing pretty much anything I'm good at. I've been struggling to find a career/stable life...ANYTHING, for a while, so they'll get behind me finding anything that works for me.
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It’s not like I write porn or anything but it’s a little too much to let them know my work is out there. I would never give my family my pen name. It’s not written for them, and if they find it and read it then that’s fine as long as the don’t know it’s me.
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Now, though, years have passed and life gets in the way and there always seems to be something more important or more immediate that I have to be doing other than researching, writing, and editing. I guess you could say they've lost interest or belief that I'll be able to do it for a living.
I'm making them sound selfish, aren't I? But we're working class, so endeavors centered around things not designed to put food on the table and gas in the car aren't seen as useful or practical.
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- Khrysalis
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Ha! I know exactly what you mean. For most of my family, reading is considered a laborious chore, and the only writing they do is signing their name on receipts and packages. Asking for reading and reviewing from them is considered a bit unreasonable.autsogn wrote: ↑16 Nov 2018, 17:08 Family is supportive on the surface, but their biggest contribution typically amounts to that moment where they buy a copy of the book and then wait for you to jump up and down in joy kissing their feet for such a grand gesture. When you try to explain that you'd rather have some honest feedback or ask them to post a review, then they get really quiet, really fast. On the other hand, what I've written can be pretty dark for many of them, so maybe I don't want them to read it after all! And God forbid you forgot to mention one of them in the preface.
― Margaret Weis